Julius Sturm

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Julius Sturm (1886)

Julius Carl Reinhold Sturm , also Julius Karl Reinhold Sturm , pseudonym Julius Stern ; (* July 21, 1816 in Köstritz ; † May 2, 1896 in Leipzig ) was a German poet of late Romanticism. In addition, Sturm was pastor of Köstritz from 1856 to 1885 . He wrote numerous poems and prose works, which he published in about 30 books.

Life

Julius Sturm attended the Rutheneum High School in Gera from 1829 and studied theology at the University of Jena from 1837 . During his studies he became a member of the Jena fraternity . In 1841 he began an educational activity in Heilbronn , where he became the educator of the Hereditary Prince Heinrich XIV. Reuss j. L. (Reuss-Schleiz) was named. For this reason he was partly at the grammar school in Meiningen. In 1844 he published his first book New Fairy Tales for Young People , at that time still under the pseudonym Julius Stern. In 1851 he became pastor in Göschitz near Schleiz and at the end of 1857 pastor in Köstritz . In 1885 he was made an honorary citizen of Köstritz. On the occasion of his retirement, he received the title of a Privy Councilor in 1885.

His son Heinrich Sturm was Lord Mayor of Chemnitz from 1908 until his death in 1917 . His older son August Sturm , a professional lawyer and author of many poems and other works, wrote a biography of his father in 1916.

Sturm's texts are considered religious and sensitive.

Works

  • New Fairy Tales for the Young , 1844 (as Julius Stern)
  • Poems , Leipzig 1850, 3rd edition 1862, 6th edition 1891
  • Fromme Lieder , Leipzig 1852, 4th edition 1862, 12th edition 1893
  • Two roses or the Song of Songs of Love , Leipzig 1854, 2nd edition 1892
  • The red book , collection of fairy tales, Leipzig 1855 (as Julius Stern)
  • New poems , Leipzig 1856, 2nd edition 1880
  • New pious songs and poems , Leipzig 1858, 4th edition 1891, 3rd part 1892
  • For the house (song performance) , Leipzig 1862
  • Israelitische Lieder , 1868, 3rd edition, Halle 1881
  • From the pilgrimage , 1868
  • Songs and Pictures , Leipzig 1870, 2 parts, 2nd edition 1892
  • 1870. Battle and victory poems , Halle 1870
  • Quiet hours of prayer in pious songs of our days , anthology (as editor), Leipzig 1870, 8th edition by Gerok 1903
  • Mirror of time in fables , Leipzig 1872
  • God greet you , Leipzig 1876, 4th edition 1892
  • The book for my children , Leipzig 1877, 2nd edition 1880
  • Immergrün , Neue Lieder, Leipzig 1879, 2nd edition 1888; illustrated by Thumann, 2nd edition, Leipzig 1899
  • Upward (new religious poems) , Leipzig 1881
  • New Fables , 5th edition, Leipzig 1881
  • Märchen , Leipzig 1881, 2nd edition 1887
  • Israelite songs , 1881
  • To the Lord my song (religious poems), Bremen 1884
  • Nature, love, fatherland (new poems), Leipzig 1884
  • Colorful leaves , Wittenberg 1885
  • Palme und Krone (songs for edification) , Bremen 1887
  • New lyric poems , Bremen 1894
  • In Freud und Leid (last songs), Leipzig 1896

Original texts

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Table of contents on the web server of the German National Library (PDF)
personal data
SURNAME Sturm, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sturm, Julius Carl Reinhold (full name); Sturm, Julius Karl Reinhold (full name); Stern, Julius (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet of the late Romantic period
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Köstritz
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1896
Place of death Leipzig